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Investigation of the interplanetary dust cloud is characterized by
contributions from quite different methods and fields, such as
research on zodiacal light, meteors, micrometeoroids, asteroids,
and comets. Since the earth's environment and interplanetary space
became accessible to space vehicles these interrelations are
clearly evident and extremely useful. Space measurements by
micrometeoroid detectors, for example, provide individual and
eventually detailed information on impact events, which however are
limited in number and therefore restricted in statistical
significance. On the other hand, zodiacal light measurements
involve scattered light from many particles and therefore provide
global information about the average values of physical properties
and spatial distribution of interplanetary grains. Additional
knowledge stems from lunar samples and from dust collections in the
atmosphere and in deep sea sediments. All these sources of
complementary information must be put together into a synoptical
synthesis. This also has to take into account dynamical aspects and
the results of laboratory investigations concerning physical
properties of small grains. Such considerable effort is not merely
an academic exercise for a few specialists interested in the solar
dust cloud. Since this same cloud exclusively allows direct in-situ
acess to investigate extraterrestrial dust particles over a wide
range of sizes and materials, it provides valuable information for
realistic treatment of dust phenomena in other remote cosmic
regions such as in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar dust
shells, and even protostellar or protoplanetary systems.
Evidence found in legal and literary texts from early modern
England undermines and complicates any notions of a monolithic,
stable ideal of female conduct. Loreen L. Giese's study of over
5000 important folios of court depositions contemporary with
Shakespeare's plays demonstrates the complex ways those plays
participate in and comment upon their culture, rather than stand
apart from it. The depositions from the Consistory Court of London
for 1586-1611 and the texts of Shakespeare's dramas represent two
different kinds of evidence of how courtship and marriage, and the
roles available to women within those processes, were perceived,
represented, and contested. Whether in the courtroom or on the
stage, these texts show that women often enjoyed autonomous roles:
they were both suitors and objects of suits, givers as well as
receivers of gifts. Thus, both the court records and the plays
themselves present women as agents who are capable of challenging
the roles traditionally assigned to them in courtship and marriage,
so that rather than genders being wholly determinative, the
evidence shows that it also allowed space for agency.
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